16yo US boy turns profitable bitcoin miner

ONE sign that Evan Neal isn't your typical 16-year-old: He contributes several hundred dollars toward the monthly electric bill at his dad's house to cover the cost of running his energy-hungry computer equipment.

IT'S all part of the latest business venture launched by the tech-savvy high school student using high-powered computer processing to obtain newly created bitcoins, a process known by cognoscenti of the digital currency world as bitcoin mining.